Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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